How to get primary information like height, width, duration, fps, etc. for a video file using FFmpeg?

Tech QnA
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Any help would be helpful.

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FFmpeg provides a CLI utility called ffprobe which allows access to all the metadata related to media files (video/audio/subtitles). You can use -show_streams to get details about each individual stream in the video file. Output format option -of allows to display details in JSON/CSV/Plaint Text format.

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Can you elaborate more if possible can you provide the complete commands to get this information using ffprobe or any other idea?

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You can use the following command using keys / variable names

ffprobe -v error -show_entries stream=width,height -of default=noprint_wrappers=1 input.mp4 width=1280 height=720
Secondly, if Just width x height

ffprobe -v error -select_streams v -show_entries stream=width,height -of csv=p=0:s=x input.m4v 1280x720

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Hope it would be helpful for you in case you want to use JSON

ffprobe -v error -select_streams v -show_entries stream=width,height -of json input.mkv { “programs”: [ ], “streams”: [ { “width”: 1280, “height”: 720 } ] }
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